On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:28 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:41:21PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:18 -0400, John Poelstra wrote: > > > Shyam said the following on 06/17/2008 12:10 PM Pacific Time: > > > > I've been using Fedora since fedora 6 and it is good to see improvements > > > > in yum. When compared with ubuntu in the packages which is around > > > > 25000 and fedora which has around 10000, the time taken to download the > > > > package list during the refresh in ubuntu takes lesser time than Fedora. > > > > Is it possible to speed this process.? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Shyam > > > > > > > > > > Just out of curiosity... exactly what is the time different downloading > > > and installing the same package set on Fedora and Ubuntu? > > > > I don't know that it makes much sense to compare download times since in > > general the packages are coming from different servers (and aren't even > > the same sizes). What I do notice is that apt-get and friends on Ubuntu > > are much faster at resolving dependencies, so it may be something about > > the database implementation. For example if I do a "yum update" and a > > minute later do another one, yum takes a while to tell there's nothing > > to be done (even when using the cache), whereas apt-get is almost > > instantaneous. > > > > Here's a quick comparison. Both machines are Intel Core 2 Duos with 2GB > > of RAM. One is Fedora 9, the other is Ubuntu Gutsy. Both are up to date > > with their respective repos, so no network activity is going on here: > > > > Fedora: > > # time yum update > > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, protectbase, refresh-packagekit > > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > > * livna-development: mirror.atrpms.net > > * livna: mirror.atrpms.net > > * google: dl.google.com > > * fedora: fedora.c3sl.ufpr.br > > * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com > > * localrepo: > > * updates: ftp.usf.edu > > 0 packages excluded due to repository protections > > Setting up Update Process > > No Packages marked for Update > > > > real 0m5.376s > > user 0m3.611s > > sys 0m0.278s > > > > Gutsy: > > > > $ time sudo apt-get upgrade > > That's not an equivalent command. An equivalent would be > > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade > > yum refreshes its metadata every time it is run. It doesn't. It refreshes it if metadata_expire seconds (defined in /etc/yum.conf) have elapsed since the last time it was run. Since I deliberately updated both systems just before running the test, there was no network activity. This is explained in the post. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
